You and me,
Around the tree!.
I want you more,
Than you want me!.
This was a little ditty I made up in HS football as a motivator to go after any ball carrier!. The tree was any blocker!. It was the "game within a game" that helped me play as well as I did!.
When I wrote it down the other day, I noticed that this is mostly the way I had lived my whole life, for good and for not-so-good!. This attitude worked well for me in football, but not so well in life!. Football, and my coach, taught me every life-lesson that I know!.
But this attitude can become a defeatist attitude if we always assume we are not wanted!. Because of my disability, I took on exactly that attitude!. I had to over-accomplish in everything I did, just to prove to everyone, except my coach, that I was normal!. As well as I played he gave me no referrals to play college ball!. I got a referral instead from my principal!.
A not-so-good characteristic about this attitude is that I carelessly sweep aside any obstacle I don't like!.Www@QuestionHome@Com